Professional Surveyor's Manual
 Professional Surveyor's Manual: I found this book left me wanting for more "manual" type reference information. It is quite specific to Ohio area standards for highway and boundary surveys. It is not a good reference for beginners needing a & [... more]
CDN$71.95
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Manhattan in Maps: 1527-1995
From Amazon.com: From crude woodblock engravings depicting 16th-century explorers' first glimpse of New York Harbor to the latest satellite photographs of Manhattan, the rare maps of New York in this book offer a unique look at the city's evolution over [... more]
CDN$67.00
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Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the ...
From Amazon.com: Abraham Lincoln, who had worked as a riverboat pilot before turning to politics, knew a thing or two about the problems of transporting goods and people from place to place. He was also convinced that the United States would flourish [... more]
CDN$41.50
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Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
Amazon.ca: The life story of Louis Riel has been told in almost every form imaginable, from traditional historical fiction (Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched Wood People) to punk rock (Thee Headcoats' "Louie Riel"). Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic- [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
The Only Guide to Grammar and Usage That's Worth a Damn: Peruse the bookstore sections on Grammar and Usage, and you'll see there has never been a lack of experts who want to tell you how to write. But the problem with just about every one of these books [... more]
CDN$31.95
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The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a ...
The psychological distance between a hill and a mountain: This unassuming film takes place during World War I in a Welsh village when two English cartographers, Anson (Hugh Grant) and the more senior Garrad (Ian McNeice), arrive as part of the war effort [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness
We can learn much from this outstanding man: Most people learn about Thoreau through his books "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" but the purpose of this book is to provide a spiritual biography and an insight into his religious and [... more]
CDN$42.14
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Route 66 Ad
Who knew? Those dang Romans wrote the first guidebooks!: I have to say, I loved this book. Who knew the Romans were responsible for all our tourist foibles -- writing the first guidebooks, making the first souvenirs, building the first shonky hotels. I [... more]
CDN$14.01
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Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell ...
From Amazon.com: Dreamland is journalist Phil Patton's chronicle of his road trip into the low deserts and dry lakes of southern Nevada in search of the truth (which, presumably, is Out There). It's a cultural history of the cold war, a psychoanalysis of [... more]
CDN$28.00
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By the Shores of Silver Lake CD
New Beginnings: Laura Ingalls tells about her childhood experiences as her family travels from Minnesota to settle in South Dakota. She gives an account of how their lives changed from living in a more settled area in Minnesota compared to living in [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Mapmakers of ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 910 EAN: 9780712345095 Edition: Second edition ISBN: 0712345094 Number Of Pages: 912 Publication Date: 1997-12-16 [... more]
CDN$150.00
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GPS for Land Surveyors (PBK)
The GPS Primer - updated: I found Mr. Van Sickle's 2nd edition book to be an expansion, correction and update of the 1st edition (previously reviewed). The book now has nine chapters and includes a new one on "real-time". Various corrections [... more]
CDN$104.13
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